William Lowry Lane and Alice Murray Bartlett
Husband William Lowry Lane 1
Born: 12 Sep 1919 - Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 1 Baptized: Died: 26 Dec 2007 - Easton, Talbot County, MD 1 Buried: - Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground, Easton, Talbot County, MD FamilySearch ID: LCQC-D55 Find A Grave ID: 220787510
Father: Clarence Agustin Lane {FSID: LCQC-D2Y} Mother: Mary Rebecca Downing {FSID: LCQC-DLR, FGID: 220787552}
Marriage: 1948 - MD
Wife Alice Murray Bartlett 2
Born: 21 Nov 1923 - Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD 2 Baptized: Died: 25 Nov 2003 - Easton, Talbot County, MD 2 Buried: - Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground, Easton, Talbot County, MD FamilySearch ID: LTW1-75V Find A Grave ID: 220832984
Children
1 M William Lowry Lane Jr
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
2 M Henry Dowling Lane
Born: Cir 1951 Baptized: Died: Buried:
3 M Thomas Dixon Lane
Born: Cir 1954 Baptized: Died: Buried:
4 M Francis Bartlett Lane
Born: Cir 1958 Baptized: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - William Lowry Lane
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220787510/william-lowry-lane
BIRTH 12 Sep 1919
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
DEATH 26 Dec 2007 (aged 88)
BURIAL
Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground
Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
MEMORIAL ID 220787510
William Lowry Lane of Easton died on Wednesday December 26, 2007.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware on September 12, 1919, he was the son of the late Clarence Augustus Lane and Mary Downing Lane. Mr. Lane attended St. Albans School in Washington, DC, graduating from St. Michaels High School after the family moved from Washington to the farm outside of Neavitt which is now the Jean Ellen Dupont Sheehan Audubon Center. After graduation Mr. Lane entered college and then the U. S. Merchant Marines for a 3.5 year enlistment. Upon his return from service, he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1946 with a major in agricultural economics and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After his college graduation he was employed by the St. Michaels Milling Company which then merged with J. McKenny Willis and CO. forming Bayshore Foods. He was involved with all aspects of the poultry industry on the Eastern Shore and was primarily responsible for the hatchery operations, feeding, raising and the processing of product. After Bayshore Foods, Mr. Lane was prominent in food processing operations for Kane Miller, the successor to Bayshore Foods.
Mr. Lane was president of the Trustees of the Third Haven Friends Meeting, past commodore of the Tred Avon Yacht Club and The Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, and past president of the Maryland Agricultural Society of The Eastern Shore. He also served on many local Boards and gave generously of his time and talents. As a birthright Quaker, he oversaw the complete historic renovation and restoration of the Third Haven Meeting House in Easton. He was an avid sailor, competing in regattas worldwide. He won the Chesapeake Bay mens sailing Championship at the United States Naval Academy in 1954. He also won the Penguin Atlantic Coast Championship in 1956. His other passions included furniture and boat building.
He was married to the late Alice Bartlett Lane, who died in November 2003. He is survived by four sons, Henry Downing Lane, William Lowry Lane, Jr., Thomas Dixon Lane, Francis Bartlett Lane, nine grandchildren and one great grand daughter.
A memorial service will be held at The Third Haven Meeting House on January 12th, 2008 at 11:00 A. M.
Memorial donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to The Trustees of the Third Haven Meeting, 406 S. Washington St. Easton, MD 21601 or Talbot Hospice Foundation.
Funeral arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton, MD.
Family Members
Parents
Mary Rebecca Downing Lane 18911992
Created by: jss
Added: 7 Jan 2021
Find a Grave Memorial 220787510
memorial page for William Lowry Lane (12 Sep 191926 Dec 2007), Find a Grave Memorial ID 220787510, citing Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground, Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by jss (contributor 49159960) .
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCQC-D55
"Birth 12 September 1919
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States
Death 26 December 2007
Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States"
https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/william-lowry-lane-24-2rqjkb
"Born in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USA on 12 Sep 1919 to Clarence Augustin Lane and Mary Rebecca Downing. William Lowry Lane married Alice Murray Bartlett. He passed away on 26 Dec 2007 in Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States of America."
General Notes: Wife - Alice Murray Bartlett
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220832984/alice-lane
BIRTH 21 Nov 1923
DEATH 25 Nov 2003 (aged 80)
BURIAL
Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground
Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
MEMORIAL ID 220832984
Created by: Blkcat13
Added: 8 Jan 2021
Find a Grave Memorial 220832984
memorial page for Alice Bartlett Lane (21 Nov 192325 Nov 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 220832984, citing Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground, Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by Blkcat13 (contributor 50392267) .
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTW1-75V
"Alice B. Lane, a homemaker and club woman, died of lung cancer Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at her home in Easton. She was 80.
Alice Bartlett was born in Baltimore and raised on her family's Owings Mills farm. She was a graduate of the old Hannah More Academy. She earned her bachelor's degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
She was the granddaughter of the Rev. John Gardner Murray, who was Episcopal bishop of Maryland from 1903 to 1929 and first elected bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States in 1926. She was also the granddaughter of John Kemp Bartlett, a 19th-century Maryland attorney general.
During the 1940s, Mrs. Lane worked in the athletic department at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. In 1948, she married William Lowery Lane. Her husband, a retired farmer and businessman, survives her.
The couple made their home from 1957 to 1979 at Solitude, their estate near St. Michaels. Since 1979, they had lived in a home overlooking the Miles River in Easton, Maryland.
Mrs. Lane was active in the cultural and civic life of Easton, and was a former president of the Harbor Club of the Eastern Shore and Garden Club of the Eastern Shore. She was a member of the Tred Avon Yacht Club, and former board member of Dixon House, an assisted living facility in Easton; the Country School; and the Talbot County Humane Society.
Mrs. Lane, a dog lover, was a member and an accredited judge of the American Kennel Club.
She enjoyed spending summers at a family home in Chester, Nova Scotia.
A Quaker, Mrs. Lane was a member of the Third Haven Meeting in Easton, where a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
In addition to her husband, survivors include four sons, Henry Downing Lane of Westport, Conecticut; Francis Bartlett Lane of Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania; and William Lowry Lane and Thomas Dixon Lane, both of Easton; a brother, Francis Gilpin Bartlett Jr. of Easton; and nine grandchildren.
Birth 21 November 1923
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Death 25 November 2003
Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States"
https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/alice-murray-bartlett-24-2rqgth
"Born in Maryland on 21 Nov 1923 to Francis Gilpin Bartlett and Ruth Murray. Alice Murray Bartlett married William Lowry Lane. She passed away on 25 Nov 2003 in Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States."
Notes: Marriage
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220787510/william-lowry-lane
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220832984/alice-lane
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCQC-D55
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTW1-75V
https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/william-lowry-lane-24-2rqjkb
https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/alice-murray-bartlett-24-2rqgth
Sources
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 Jul 2017), entry for William Lowry Lane, person ID LCQC-D55.
2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 Jul 2017), entry for Alice M Bartlett, person ID LCQC-DRT.
1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 Jul 2017), entry for William Lowry Lane, person ID LCQC-D55.
2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 Jul 2017), entry for Alice M Bartlett, person ID LCQC-DRT.
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